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Asignatura: Shakespeare y el teatro britanico e irlandes, Profesor: Francisco Javier Castillo Martin, Carrera: Estudios Ingleses, Universidad: ULL
Tipo: Apuntes
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6th February 2014
THE TEMPEST
∙ Subegenre: Tragicomedy / Romance ∙ Date: Between 1610 and 1613 ∙ Sources: Discovery of the Bermudas, otherwise called the Ile of Devils, by Silvester Joirdan, published in 1610 Michel de Montaigne`s Essais: “Of Cannibals”.
*** Themes:** Reconciliation. love, notion of power (role of monarch, etc.), colonialism (period of New Lands discovered, new people, etc…) Shakespeare reflecting:
Title → 2 readings: element of nature dramatis interested in another kind of nature: this is the moral tempest
Setting → Island of the tempest → more than paradise → created by the author → full of magnificent elements Purgatory
List of characters: ∙ Prospero → Right duke of Milan. His brother Antonio, stolen him the position. Archetype of humanist.. Monarchy comes from God’s will. ∙ Miranda → Prospero’s daughter. Pure and innocent ∙ Antonio → Usurper of Prospero’s role of Duke. Prospero¡s brother ∙ Alonso → King of Napoles. ∙ Ferdinand → Alonso’s son. Promise of true love for Miranda. ∙ Sebastian → Alonso’s brother ∙ Gonzalo → Alonso’s councillor. Honest and loyal. ∙ Stephano → Alonso’s drunken butler ∙ Trinculo → A jester (clown of the play) ∙ Ariel → An airy spirit. Prospero’s server. ∙ Caliban → Feels he is the king of the island, that the island belongs to himself. When Prospero arrived, there were a good interaction between them, but then Caliban became Prospero’s
slave.Described as a monster → Semihuman. ∙ Boatswain → Authority in the ship. The master. But in this case he is on command on the situation. Sailor fighting against the storm and he gives order, he has got the power. ∙ Other characters.
→ ACT 1 SCENE 1 ∙ Dramatist controlling the information he gives, the king is mention but not his name. ∙ Full of dramatic density. In the middle of the sea. Mariners fighting against the tempest.
SCENE 2 ∙ Very different scene ∙ Longer than scene 1 ∙ Long dialogue between Miranda and Prospero about his punishment living in the island → during 12 years. ∙ Ariel and Caliban speaks as well ∙ At the end of the scene → Ferdinand and Miranda fall in love ∙ Ariel following Prospero’s orders separates all the people in the ship in different parts of the island
Features of tragicomedy: ∙ People of the upper class: kings, heroes, dukes… ∙ Use of music and dancing ∙ Mixing of serious and happy elements ∙ Language → The end of 16th cent. and beginning of 17th → Modern English → Beginnings → Use of thou (you) (upper classes), thee(lower class), thy and thine (your: thine before vocal beginnings, thee for consonant beginnings), mine → my Canst, seest, dost→ 2nd person endings, from Old English. Blessed, infused, abhorred
pages 44, 45 → Students book → More information about attitude of Shakespeare’s language
10th February 2014
→ ACT II ∙ Act II, scene 1 → a glade in a forest